Li Weihan Deliberative Democracy Thought Research

At present, “deliberative democracy”not only becomes a hot topic in academic circles abroad and domestic, but also becomes the highly valued subject of our party. Although the theory of deliberative democracy comes from the west, it has a deep practice in the course of the revolution, construction and reformation of our country. Li Weihan, China’s great proletarian revolutionist and the new China’s first Minister of the United Front, who used this rich and unique deliberative democracy thought in the practice of China’s revolution and construction.Li Weihan deliberative democracy thought has its profound theoretical origin and special development course, which comes from the United Front Theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Mao Zedong, multi-party cooperation theory as well as people’s democracy theory. Moreover, it originated from the public regime of the national revolution period, formed in the Shanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region construction of the Anti Japanese War period, and developed in the United Front work after the foundment of new China.Li Weihan deliberative democratic is a rich thought. Li Weihan points that, the deliberative democracy is the achievements of our party, the needs of supervising the ruling party. He also points that deliberative democracy should be carried out between the parties, the ethnic affairs, the industrial and commercial circles, the NPC and CPPCC and the Council of state. And the way of deliberative democracy should be various. The deliberative democracy needs to be formalized and legalized.The series of Li Weihan deliberative democratic thought has a great reference value and significance to the construction of today China’s deliberative democratic. According to the summary and the analysis of Li Weihan deliberative democracy experience, it can be known that, to promote deliberative democracy in China, we still need to continually carry forward the tradition of harmonious party, strengthen the deliberation between the parties, focus on the development of multi-layered deliberation corresponding to the politic life, create the form of deliberative democracy continually, perfect the deliberative supervision, the system of ruling by law, adhere to the leadership of CPC and strengthen the work of United Front in China.